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ENVIRONMENT: Arctic Circle: Rush for oil and gas supplies

To hear Russia and Canada, we are on the cusp of a new Cold War, as global warming is rapidly rendering previously inaccessible Arctic oil and gas supplies ever more retrievable. Norway has fired a diplomatic warning shot across the Arctic. There will be conflict if nations competing for access to as much as a quarter of the worlds natural resources of oil and gas do not abide by international law. Here in the High Arctic as the Norwegians call it, winter is drawing in, the first midnight sunset occurred on Sunday. Within a few weeks the sun will set altogether. At Ny Alderson research station the scientists are hunkering down for the hard months to come. The Foreign Ministers of Germany and Norway have come on a visit here to highlight the very immediate danger confronting the Arctic.

ITN Source | August 30, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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